Wrench filler



Patented July 7, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN E. MORGAN, OF BARNSDALL, OKLAHOMA. ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS. OF ONE-HALF TO E. D. MCCOY, OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS.

WRENCH FILLER.

Application filed November 7 '0 all vii/10m it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN E. MORGAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Barnsdall, in the county of Osage and State of Oklahoma, have invented a new and usefnl \Vrench Filler, of which the following is a specification.

This invention aims to provide a filler for a wrench, so constructed that, when there is no occasion for the use of the tiller, a portion thereof may be turned backwardly into an inoperative position, it being unnecessary to detach the filler from the wrench.

Figure 1 shows in plan, a portion of a wrench whereunto the device forming the subject matter of this application has been applied; Figure 2 is a section on the line 2 2 of Figure 1.

The numeral 1 marks the head of a wrench 2 of that general sort which is used for handling tools employed in connection with well drilling and maintenance, the wrench having the usual suspension n'ieans t4. the opening in the head of the wrench being designated by the numeral 3. and the numeral 4; designating the upstanding reinforcing flange which extends about the opening.

The filler forming the subject matter of this application comprises a plate-like body 5 held by a securing element 6, such as a bolt, on the head 1 of the wrench 2, the body of the filler having a reduced knuckle 7 received between the ears 8 on a wing 9 provided with a rectangularly disposed depending jaw 10 having a beveled end 11, a pivot element 12 passing through the knuckle 11 and the ears 8 to form a hinged union between the body 5 and the wing 9.

lYhcu the tiller is in use. as depicted in the drawings, the wing 8 extends across the upper edge of the flange 4, and the jaws 10 extend downwardly along the inner surface of the flange 4, within the opening 3, the beveled portions 11 of the jaw 10 defining a flared entering throat, whereby the tool or other object to be rotated may be inserted readily between the aws 10 of the fillers.

\Vhen the occasion for the use of the filler has passed, each filler may be swung over, in the direction of the arrow A in Figure 2 into an inoperative position, it being unnecessary to remove the bolt 6, and to de- 6, 1922. Serial No. 599,307.

tach the filler bodily, from the wrench, in accordance with the present practice.

lVhat is claimed is .1. A wrench filler comprising a body, and a wing having a jaw disposed substantially at right angles to the wing, and a pivot element connecting the wing and the body, the jaw being disposed approximately parallel to the pivot element.

2. A device constructed as set forth in claim 1. and further characterized by the fact that the jaw is beveled at one end from that surface of the aw which is remote from the pivot element toward that surface of the jaw which is adjacent to the pivot element.

3. The combination with a wrench includ ing a head having an opening and provided with a flange disposed about the opening, of a filler including a body secured to the head of the wrench, and a wing hingedly connected to the body and extended across the flange, the wing carrying a jaw extended along the flange and disposed at an angle to the wing.

4. In a device of the class described, a wrench having an opening, body members mounted on one surface of the wrench and located on opposite sides of the opening. and wings pivoted to the body members and eX tended across said surface to the opening, the wings being provided with jaws disposed at an angle to the wings, the jaws being located in the opening at opposite sides of the openmg.

5. In a tool wrench having jaws providing an opening between the same, a bushing for said opening comprising an attaching member permanently and rigidly bolted 'to the upper side of the wrench and provided with an offset hinge member and a bushing member provided with a shank at an angle to said bushing member hingedly connected to said hinge member whereby said bushing member may be swung down into the open ing in said wrench and back on top of said attaching member.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto atlixed my sig1'1a ture.

JOHN E. MORGAN. lVitnesses:

F. S. HARTMAN, Or'ro GLASER. 

